By Ovat Abeng
The people of Nawfia community in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State has lamented food shortage over fifteen years abandoned collapse bridge in the town.
They said the bridge known as “Ezu Nawfia Bridge” is the only entrance point to their farm land and neighbouring Abagana community in the council area.
They lamented that the incident have turned many farmers in the community into begging.
They also lamented that some residents had relocated out of the community due to the inconvenience and associated risk of walking through the scraped of the bridge to their farm.
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The people expressed their ordeals when officials from the State Ministry of Environment pay an inspection tour to the site of the collapse bridge, on Friday, where the assure the people of government quick intervention.
According to the President General of the town, Chief Daniel Okoye, who also spoke, the affected bridge constructed immediately after the Civil War collapsed 15-years ago and ever since then the bridge had remain abandoned and all our efforts to draw federal/state government attention have probe abortive despite NEW-MAP visit to the site recently.
“My people are seriously hungry and suffering because of lack of access road to their farmland.
“Well-to-do individuals in the community have been spending millions of naira working around the bridge that have en masse into gully erosion to prevent the menace from destroying housing and other valuable properties in the community.
“We are urging the state governor, Chukwuma Charles Soludo to extend his solution agenda to Nawfia community to enable us bounce back to our farming status, we are ancestrally know for,” the PG stated.
Responding on behalf of the State Government, the leader of the inspection team, Lady Okpala Chidnma, assure the people that the government of Prof Soludo will do everything possible to address the challenged.
She also assure the people that their message will get to the table of the governor through the Commissioner of Environment, Dr. Felix Odumegwu.
She equally urged the people to exercise patient with the government.
